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AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
I believe that it could.
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
The locomotive option gives you 4x towing capacity and more inherent power and covers:
| Applies to | Grav Vehicle, Ground Vehicle, Submersible, Walker, Watercraft |
Infrastructure was mostly cut, but rail network types include:
| Train/Railroad | TL |
| Rail (primitive) | 1 |
| Rail (basic) | 3 |
| Rail (improved) | 7 |
| Rail (enhanced): Maglev | 8 |
| Rail (advanced): Gravlev | 13 |
| Vacc Tube rail | 8 |
Sizewise, yes.
Would have to take a chisel to the HighGuard rules for that, so technically out of scope
The equivalent of g-drive or 10D, yes.
Yes.
ProfGrizzlyJon
Cosmic Mongoose
Thanks!
Arkathan
Emperor Mongoose
Hi ho, hi ho! It's off to work we go!
Tracked mule or person driven mine carts which can be linked together.
PeterDebney
Banded Mongoose
The theory goes that Roman stone trackways, aligned grooves in stone paving for carts, led to the modern railways. This includes the gag about the railway gauge being based on the width of the Roman horses’ ass (or similar spelling…)
The jury is out whether these grooves were manufactured or just worn by traffic though.
Railroads are not simply linked together carts they run a track
If I remember right they were considered a bit shallow to both be manufactured and to to the job when first created. But hay at least it’s a possible explanation, probably a bit of a stretch but at least possible.
Fluffy Bunny Feet
Emperor Mongoose
I believe it was the Romans (might have been Greeks) who had trouble with pirates at the end of a peninsula and they cut a pair of parallel grooves in the rock across the peninsula. They put a large cart in the grooves and would roll it out into the sea under a galley, strap the galley down and push/pull it to the other side of the peninsula bypassing the pirates. A primitive "railroad" without rails or engines.
Arkathan
Emperor Mongoose
So do the mine carts in any image of fantasy mines you've likely ever seen - and the same is true for the decidedly low tech example I alluded to.
Hence the first word in the description after the movie reference.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Going by the English experience, it's who's first with the most of their standard.
How did they establish their particular standard, it seems existing ones from mines, plus adjustment, to what I assume are greater weights and speeds.
So, if you can start from scratch, and have the existing industrial base to support that, you can define a new gauge, that can integrate into existing or planned transport infrastructure.
How did they establish their particular standard, it seems existing ones from mines, plus adjustment, to what I assume are greater weights and speeds.
So, if you can start from scratch, and have the existing industrial base to support that, you can define a new gauge, that can integrate into existing or planned transport infrastructure.
I’d like to get an actual reference for that. The Romans were horrible sailors and their navy was pretty much useless
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
Till they took on Carthage.
The Romans were still horrible sailors they just got lucky the the Phoenician were good sailors and their navy navy out of Cartage was ran by them instead of the Romans. And that was the only place were Rom had an effective navy.
Lawl citation required.
The Romans depended heavily on their highly developed navy for both invasions and the broader logistics of running an empire centred on a sea they called _Mare Nostrum_!
Yes, they had to learn quickly during the Punic Wars but learn they did to defeat the premier naval power in the western world. After victories against states and pirates they ran out of local naval challengers (comes with the whole dominate the entire coastline) but still won dominance in the channel and the North Sea as well as other areas.
